What I learned from my bid to become Rochdale's MP: Parliamentary selection is the toughest bit of our political system. But it was a privilege to try. My piece in @theipaper today https://x.com/paul… (View Post)

There no upside in smoking whatsoever, I can’t see why there shouldn’t be a gradual phasing out of it. Preventing young kids starting, whilst allowing old people who have the habit already to continu… (View Post)

Quite incredible really, that the man who looks certain to be our next PM by virtue of being a sensible person with integrity, was calling for us to remain under restrictions solely so he could point… (View Post)

“ And as a practical matter in the context of prison, criminals as a class are not known for their veracity, and there is an incentive for cis men to pretend to be trans women in order to gain access… (View Post)

… Such a short memory, as I know only too well ‘Johnson Variant’, what a prat (View Post)